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TruckOSaurus on 01 August 2007
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Legend11 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Legend11 said:

One million the first week then it starts to plummit fast as the lemming effect of getting something hard to get wears off. There's no way Nintendo is actually going to derail this gravy train by actually meeting demand. Just the fact that it's hard to get has created an amazing amount of press.


That's only true if the audience wants it only for that reason. So far you have no proof of that. It's this illogic that sperates the fanboys from the real gamers.


I have no proof but here's my reasoning: everytime I hear people talking about the Wii (either to me or I happen to hear other peoples' conversations) they almost always (like 99% of the time) talk about how hard it is to get. They rarely if ever talk about the games on it, I mean besides Wii Play I don't think I've actually ever heard anyone (in person not in forums) talk about another game.

Also most of the media attention the system now gets isn't from it's games, it's from how hard the systems are to get. If they were suddenly available everywhere I have a feeling that kind of free publicity would disappear as well as the conversations from people talking about the same thing. Without that the system's profile would become much lower.

I do think though even if Wii demand is met (which I honestly don't think Nintendo will purposely do because of the reasons I stated above) it would still get attention next year solely because of Wii Fit.


 Oddly enough people I've heard talking about the Wii who were obviously non-gamers where talking about the games. I've heard talk about Wii sports the most and also some guy talking about "a crazy game where you spin a cow above your head and then throw it" (Rayman). The only guy I've heard talk about the Wii supply problem is one of my co-workers who searched for 4 months before finally getting one (while I was sooo happy to have gotten mine on launch date).

 I do believe that the free publicity due to the hard to find factor helps but I don't think it's that big of an influence.



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